UNITED KINGDOM · WALES · LANDSCAPE · PEAT
Peatlands of Wales
What this layer shows
The Peatlands of Wales map: 1,940 mapped peat bodies with their thickness class, the evidence base for Welsh peat restoration and the carbon question.
Where the data comes from
WFS · datamap.gov.wales
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Facts shown for each feature
Thickness
In these presets
Wetland
Bog, fen, reedbed, marsh and open water. Blanket and raised bog, lowland fens, reedbeds, upland flushes, priority ponds and lakes, coastal and floodplain grazing marsh, and chalk rivers: with Ramsar sites and nutrient neutrality catchments, because on a wetland site the hydrology and the nutrient budget are usually the same conversation.
Farm & land
Land grade, soils, nitrate rules and agreement land, for England and Wales. Scotland's land capability map is open and on the list; it is not in the app yet, and Northern Ireland's land grade is not in the app yet.
Renewables screening
The constraints a wind or solar scheme is screened against in Scotland and northern England: carbon-rich soils and deep peat, wild land, National Scenic Areas, the statutory designations and ancient woodland. A screening map, not a decision: NPF4 gives several of these explicit weight, and the rest is casework.